Thursday, November 26, 2015

Low-viewed Thanksgiving Eve is always very unkind to younger-skewing offerings, and Empire (3.1) was no exception, dropping 30% to a new series low by a wide margin. For the most part, series have been able to recover from these types of holiday airings, though it certainly adds a little more pressure on next week's Empire fall finale. Its lead-in Rosewood (1.2) also hit a new low, but it was not down quite as severely.

CBS was also in the original game as two hours of Survivor (1.8) were down double digits, but they still supplied a better-than-usual lead-in for the surprisingly plucky Code Black (1.4), which was actually up to its best rating since the series premiere. CSI always seemed to overachieve in its Thanksgiving Eve 10/9c airings, holding its older audience while perhaps benefiting from less drama competition, and it looks like Code is continuing the tradition.

ABC did solid work with two hours of comedy repeats (1.3/1.2/1.2/1.1), joining a Jimmy Kimmel Live repeat (0.7) to hold off NBC for third place. NBC had two hours of Saturday Night Live (0.9/1.2) leading out of a "making of" special for The Wiz Live! (0.6). That special tied last year's similar special for Peter Pan Live! (Peter Pan itself went on to do a 2.4 the next week.)

And the CW continued its recent Thanksgiving Eve tradition, the classic film Planes, Trains and Automobiles (0.5). It was down a tick from last year but matched the 2012 and 2013 ratings.

FULL TABLE:

Info

Show

Timeslot

A18-49

Skew

Last%

Last#

LeLa

Rank

y2y

TLa

Ty2y

The Middle (R)

1.3

28%

-38%

-41%

The Goldbergs (R)

1.3

32%

-41%

-41%

Modern Family (R)

1.2

33%

-57%

-20%

Black-ish (R)

1.0

31%

-47%

-17%

Jimmy Kimmel Live (R)

0.7

35%

-30%

+17%

ABC:

-44%

-25%

Survivor

1.8

28%

-14%

-0.3

n/a

10/10

-14%

+0%

-16%

Code Black

1.3

22%

+8%

+0.1

+0.3

2/9

+8%

-19%

CBS:

+2%

-17%

The Making of The Wiz Live!

0.6

27%

-45%

+0%

Saturday Night Live Thanksgiving

1.1

37%

+0%

-21%

+0%

NBC:

-28%

+0%

Rosewood

1.2

33%

-20%

-0.3

n/a

9/9

-20%

+9%

Empire

3.2

44%

-27%

-1.2

-0.3

9/9

-27%

+357%

Fox:

-25%

+144%

Movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

0.4

29%

-33%

-56%

-33%

CW:

-56%

-33%

Big5:

-28%

+7%

The full table can be sorted by clicking any of the category names at the top. Hover over 'Last', 'y2y' and timeslot numbers for more information on the previous episode(s) being compared.